Day 1: Showing Up
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Congratulations on committing to a daily meditation practice and welcome to Day 1!
The first step in consistency is commitment.
Today let’s show up for ourselves and for each other and commit to building this journey ahead.
Hi, my name is Chloe Freytag, and welcome to our first day of our Get Healthy U TV 14-day meditation challenge. I'm so excited that you made the commitment to be here today. That's an amazing first step, just showing up is the first step in meditation, just committing, committing to sit down and just be with yourself for a little bit. So, go ahead and find your way into a comfortable seat. If that's cross-legged on the floor, maybe utilizing a pillow.
You can even roll up a yoga mat or a towel or sit in a chair with your feet flat on the floor. Any position that you can really find a little bit more length and elevation in your spine. Allow your arms to comfortably relax onto your knees or in your lap. And then with this nice, big space in your spine, you can choose to either close your eyes down or just softly kind of gaze towards the floor. Just start by coming into this moment, into your body, into this position you're sitting.
And to kind of note the start of our meditation practice, we'll take three deep breaths together, using this as a starting point for every time that we come to sit in our meditation. We open with these three breaths to kind of clean the slate so to speak. So take a big, deep inhale in through your nose, and then exhale the air out the mouth. Again, big, deep inhale, really fill the lungs, let all the air go. Last time, big, deep breath in, and exhale the air out the mouth.
Start to let the breath come in and out normally. Noting if you can take it a little bit slower, a little bit softer than maybe you would at a regular pace. And just continue to arrive into this moment, into this commitment you've made to develop your meditation practice. Taking long, deep breaths, and noticing how that simple act of breathing long and deep has this natural ability to calm your body down, to calm your mind down. Keep your spine lifted nice and tall so that your lungs have space to really open up and breathe.
And any time you feel that your thoughts start to wander, if you start to think of something else other than this moment that you're sitting in, really bring your attention back into the breath. So another power that the breath has is when we're breathing consciously, we're naturally in the moment, because we're completely present with our body's inner workings, just by bringing that attention on the breath. Enjoy a few more long, deep breaths at your pace. Seeing how slow and full you can breathe. Enjoying the simple effects that creates in your body and mind.
And to mark the end of our meditation each time, we'll finish with one big, full breath that we'll kind of pause at the top of, just marking the end of this time that we're sitting and then a nice, big exhale out the mouth to let it go. So let's do that together. Take a big, full breath in through the nose, just pause for a moment, keep your shoulders relaxed, and then really let all the air out through the mouth. If your eyes are closed or you're gazing down, just start to blink your eyes back forward. Congratulations, you've finished your first day of meditation.
Go out into your day and enjoy these effects, this calming energy that you've created simply by being present with your breath.
Her voice is very calming. Llokomg forward to finding the center of meditation and learning to relax.
day 1 done.. looking forward to learning and growing
Nice to do before work! Thanks!
I just love these videos so much! This young lady is so calming and peaceful to listen to, and when I open my eyes at the end and see her smiling face it puts a smile on my face. Such a knowledgable and genuine individual, thank you!!
Thank you... Breathing helps me stay focused on what I can do now instead of worrying about the future or being sad of the past... Thank you sooo much for helping... Great program idea
Really appreciate this, I definitely feel relaxed.
This is the first time I was able to really focus and finish any meditation session. Thank you for your clear and calm guidance.
Great way to start a new day and a new week. Amazing what 5 minutes can do.
Thanks dear.. loved these minutes and wish to keep committing with you to find my peaceful me again..
Thank you first day done 🌼